Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org/
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
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with the squerge of the account / statuses policies side effects pull request, the domain limit stuff for #GoToSocial is now more or less finished, and if you're running a snapshot you can try it out :)
If you're interested, you can read more about domain limits here, including what they allow you to do: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/domain_limits/
Essentially, when it comes to a limited domain you can do stuff like:
reject all media (attachments, emojis, avatars, headers)
mark media as sensitive
mute all accounts by default, much like Mastodon and other softwares allow
force a content warning to be added to posts
set a follows policy so that follows from limited domains are forced to manual approval, rejected, or rejected UNLESS they're "follow-backs"
set it up so that posts get a "hide" or "warn" filter applied by default
Importantly, the mute/silence and filter adding options don't apply to accounts you follow. So if you mute a domain, you can still follow accounts from that domain and see their posts just fine.
With all these options, this should give GtS admins a lot more control over federation with shitty instances, beyond just domain blocking them completely.
Aside from already being available to snapshot users, the feature will be in v0.21.0, which we'll likely release shortly after the new year :)
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I just donated to the fediverse instance I use, mastoart.social. In an otherwise rapidly enshittifing online space decentralized social media needs your support. If you are able, please consider donating to your instance! Thanks so much @bestiaexmachina & @Kitty for allowing me to use your instance & happy whatever y'all celebrate at this time of year!
#Nonprofit #Donation #Fediverse #Mastodon #Holidays #NewYear #BlackAndWhite #Landscape #Photography #Darktable #Christmas
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*whispering to a date while watching RoboCop when the RoboCop first appears on the screen* That's the RoboCop.
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#Oops: The seminal (strongly influencing later developments) paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.
"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings in the context of misrepresentation of the contributions by the authors and the study sponsor and potential conflicts of interest of the authors. "
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715
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There's still this widespread misconception that the EU mandates cookie banners on all websites, and that is just plainly untrue.
Most websites do need a few cookies to function properly. And those are perfectly fine according to EU legislation. It is only the malicious cookies for tracking purposes that require consent.
All those cookie banners you see on the web are examples of malicious compliance with EU law. The operators of these websites want to track everything you do because they want to earn money off of that. That's why they implemented technically unnecessary cookies, and that's why they have to ask your consent when you visit their website.
The important takeaway is: the EU regulation isn't the problem. The profit motive is. And the shitty things it makes profit-oriented companies do.
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Linux/BSD Fix-It Clinic
<p>Layer Zero, Saturday, November 22 at 01:00 PM CST</p><h1>Linux/BSD Fix-it Clinic</h1><p></p><p>Bring your Linux/BSD desktop or server questions or woes to Layer Zero, and we'll work them out together! </p><p>Saturday, November 22, 2025</p><p>1 - 4 PM</p><p>Ping zico for questions</p>
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mister lan-man
what's your ip
Hello everyone who follows me. It looks like my time has come. I finally got a PSU for my new server hardware (5 years old instead of 10 years old, and 20gb ram instead of 2gb)
So this means I can finally self host gotosocial and I'm excited to try it out. I'll be migrating my account hopefully some time this month, not sure what domain I'm gonna use yet tho.
- member of
- https://cyberia.club
- webmaster @
- https://capsul.org/
I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.
I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero
Joined Feb 2021
